Death Cab for Cutie's New Moon Single to Debut at MTV VMAs

Eight years ago, I watched Death Cab for Cutie sleepily rock an upstate New York college cafeteria. And in two weeks, that very same band's song from a massively anticipated teenage vampire romance movie will debut at the MTV Video Music Awards. That, my friends, is what we call a wide career arc.

The VMAs will air live on September 13, and on the show, MTV will debut a new Death Cab song called "Meet Me on the Equinox", a track confirmed to be on the soundtrack for the forthcoming Twilight sequel New Moon. This New Moon soundtrack has been getting an unlikely amount of burn here at Pitchfork news thanks to the shocking number of great bands who are said to be on it. Director Chris Weitz has said that Thom Yorke and Bon Iver have both written songs specifically for the soundtrack.

In a statement from Twilight author Stephanie Meyer's website, Death Cab bassist Nick Harmer had this to say: "We wrote 'Meet Me On the Equinox' to reflect the celestial themes and motifs that run throughout the Twilight series, and we wanted to capture that desperate feeling of endings and beginnings that so strongly affect the main characters." Whaaaat? Well, now we know that Ben Gibbard's literary tastes range from Jack Kerouac to teen vampire romance novels.